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Monday, 6 October 2014

Windows 10 Preview has just been released and the official advice is to not use it for anything critical just yet, however it is stable and almost everything I've installed so far works as expected. The standard casualties of beta operating systems are VPN clients and this time is not an exception ... well almost.

The Cisco AnyConnect client (version 3.1.05160) installed first time and connected straight away but after a reboot the "failed to initialize connection subsystem" message appeared.

There are two suggestions to fix this, firstly disabling "Work Offline" in Internet Explorer:

Friday, 7 February 2014

There are 7 different editions of Windows Server 2012 R2 all designed for different end user requirements. The features and options can be tricky to keep straight so this link is here for my reference as much as anything else:

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

If you have already applied Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 (build 712.22) then you should read this post from Ross Smith. Basically you need to upgrade to new version of CU2 (build 712.24).

An issue was identified in public folder permissions being lost if the public folder mailbox is moved between databases on servers running build 712.22 so a new build has been released to include a fix for this.

Unfortunately any security updates for CU2 will depend on build 712.24 so you will need to apply this update even if you are not using public folders.

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

The Exchange Team have just announced the release of an OWA app for iPhone and iPad. I guess it is the app that you didn't know you needed brining a Windows Phone and Exchange 2013 experience to iOS-based gadgets.

If you like the Exchange 2013 OWA experience then this will probably be a good replacement for the built-in mail client - the only catch is that it currently only supports Office 365 mailboxes but on-premise support is promised.

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

The excellent tool that is the Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant has just been updated to include details for coexistence with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 organisations.

If you haven't used the deployment assistant previously it is a web based tool that provides checklist based step-by-step instructions for Exchange installation, coexistence and migration scenarios for on premises organisations and hybrid configuration steps for working with Office 365.

The tool in its previous guise also provided this information for coexisting with and migrating to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003/2007 and the landing page with links to both tools can be found here: Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment Assistant